Everybody's Guide to Money Matters: with a description of the various investments chiefly dealt in on the stock exchange, and the mode of dealing thereinBy: William Cotton (1786-1866)

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Everybody's Guide
to
Money Matters

With a description of the various invest
ments chiefly dealt in on the stock
exchange, and the mode of
dealing therein

also

Some account of the pitfalls prepared for the unwary,
and suggestions to the cautious investor.

by

William Cotton, F.S.A.

Late treasurer of the county of Devon,
author of "An Elizabethan Guild," "Gleanings from Records,"
"The Bank Manager," etc.
Originator of the postal order system.

London 1898.

PREFACE.

THE Author, emboldened by a Banking expe
rience of over forty years, offers this little work
to the public in the hope that, elementary though
it be, it may prove acceptable to many persons
of both sexes.

The work has been prepared chiefly for the
use of women, a vast proportion of whom are
brought up in utter ignorance of money matters
in the simplest form, though otherwise they may
be highly accomplished.

The subject, it must be allowed, is not a fasci
nating one, but there are periods in the lives of
most persons when some knowledge of money
matters may be useful and even necessary.

W.C.

CONTENTS.

PAGE
CHAP. I. What is Money? What to do with it How to
open a Bank Account How to draw Cheques . . . 1

CHAP. II. How to Deposit Money at Interest The Bank
Pass Book The Advantages of a Bank Account . 13